Mission to Mars - best reality TV show yet to come?

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Yeah, that was my thought, too. But I don't see that happening. They will train for 8-10 years, so if they go nuts they will do so during the training and then be excluded from the mission and when it comes to murder on Mars: Everything is being recorded, so I doubt they will kill someone up there infront of a 7 billion audience.

Well there hasn't been much research about the effects of prolonged space travel, radiation etc. However it's been well documented that people that have been isolated for long periods of time in small spaces (prisoners, volunteers etc.) have started to get all sorts of mental problems; losing their minds and becoming aggressive and violent.

There was the Mars-500 experiment a few years ago where 6 ppl spent 1,5 years in a small capsule simulating a trip to mars and back. Even they experienced some mental and physical problems problems during that experiment, eventho they were less than 10 meters away from the people monitoring them, which means they weren't properly isolated after all.

Knowing that you're so far away from the rest of the civilization, that if anything happens, it'll take atleast a year before anyone could get there and even the radio messages will take 20 minutes to arrive. That's a haunting thought and I'm sure it will eventually become too much for someone. And I'm sure radiation etc. will have some kind of effect on human psyche aswell.

The bottom line is, that if this project really happens and they manage to send humans into mars, it won't end up well. Too much doing and not enough planning... Mark my words.